By John RittenhouseThe Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth-Edgerton track teams competed in their second outdoor meet of the season at the Pipestone Invitational Saturday.No team points were recorded at the meet, but the Patriot boys made a strong impression by winning four events and placing second four times.Competing in the Class A version of the event, the H-BC-E-E boys won two individual titles and two relays.Chris Reid and Cody Scholten won the 100-meter dash and high jump crowns with respective 11.24 and 5-10 performances.H-BC-E-E won the 400- and 3,200-meter relays with times of 48.9 and 8:41.62.Scholten, Zach Boyum, Lee Jackson and Brad Van Dyke teamed up in the 400. Jackson, Todd Alberty, Kale Wiertzema and Tyler Bush ran the 3,200.Bush, Roger DeBoer and John Sandbulte placed second individually for the Patriot boys.Bush ran 1,600 meters in 4:47, DeBoer cleared the 110-meter hurdles in 19.38 and Sandbulte completed the 300-meter hurdles in 52.9.H-BC-E-E’s 1,600-meter relay team of Wiertzema, Alberty, Jackson and Bush placed second with a time of 3:45.The best effort produced by the H-BC-E-E girls came from the 3,200-meter relay team. Rachel Kvaale, Amanda Tilstra, Brittany Helgeson and Kerri Fransman placed third in the event with a time of 11:08.11.Here is a look at the rest of H-BC-E-E’s Top-Six finishers at the Pipestone Invitational.H-BC-E-E boysThird place: Kerry Fink, 800, 2:20.92, 800 relay (Scholten, Devin DeBoer, Boyum and Van Dyke), 1:42.Fourth place: Derek Haak, 3,200, 11:48.28; D.DeBoer, 400, 1:00.34.Fifth place: Alberty, 200, 24.96; D.DeBoer, 800, 2:27.31.Sixth place: D.DeBoer, triple jump, 33-5; Fink 3,200, 12:02.26.H-BC-E-E girlsFourth place: 400 relay (Amanda Connors, Amy Tiesler, Rosie Lewis and Kelly Mulder), 58 seconds.Fifth place: 800 relay (Connors, Lewis, Chelsea Fink and Mulder), 2:02.87; 1,600 relay (Tilstra, Helgeson, Fransman and Fink), 1:18.35.
